Re: [PATCH 1/3] gpio: Add GPIO delay driver

Michal Simek
2026-02-03T07:02:53Z

On 2/3/26 02:06, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 03, 2026 at 09:36:19AM +0800, Peng Fan wrote:
>> Hi Michal,
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 30, 2026 at 09:29:49AM +0100, Michal Simek wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Add an entry for SPL?
>>>
>>> Why? I don't have a need for it and someone should test it if this should be
>>> used in SPL. That can be done on the top of this when tested.
>>
>> I see.
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>> #
>>>>> + * Copyright (C) 2025 - 2026, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
>>>>
>>>> Drop 2025?
>>>
>>> Why? Driver was developed in 2025 but upstreaming happens in 2026.
>>
>> I think the year should start from the day of upstreaming. Not sure.
>> Tom may comment.
>
> I saw https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/01/08/copyright-without-years/ go
> by around January 1st and it's somewhere on my TODO list to ask what SFC
> thinks about it.
>
> So to be clear, I don't have an opinion either way on what date this
> uses when upstreaming. But it might be good for the project if we can
> just drop the years, which is very clearly out of scope for this patch.
>

Driver was developed 2025 and sent 2026. We have a lot of downstream patches
which were developed some time ago and then later sent but I can't remember any
ask to drop previous years. Definitely people are asking to update year to match
year when driver was sent.
And there could be a lot of development done before too.

If driver is taken from 3rd party/contributor likely you have to keep their
origin copyright and years too. You can't remove their copyright with old date too.

I don't think there is a need to remove previous year or asking to do it.

Thanks,
Michal